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Re: ash vs. bash



> However - there are probably many debian /bin/sh scripts which assume
> that 'sh' is in fact bash.  Whilst this is certainly a bug (against
> policy even, I think) they can be hard to find.

I remember that last time this came up, several people reported that
they had essentially no problems using ash as /bin/sh.  I have been
doing so for several months and noticed no ill effects.  There are
probably fewer such scripts than one might imagine.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg


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